Our latest POLITICO/Morning Consult survey found 50% support overall for the legislation. That’s down from 58% when Morning Consult first asked the question in mid-August, shortly after the Senate passed the bill.
While support among Democrats (roughly 80%) and independents (45 to 50%) has remained relatively steady, there’s been a striking drop among Republicans. In mid-August, 40% of Republicans supported the bill; now, just 22% do. GOP support dropped 10 points over the past two weeks, when Morning Consult surveyed voters after the House approved the bill.
Gosh, what happened in the last two weeks?
Oh, right.
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday denounced Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republicans over the passage of President Joe Biden's infrastructure bill through the lower chamber.
The U.S. House passed Biden's infrastructure bill late Friday in a 228-206 vote largely along party lines. 13 Republican representatives broke with the party to vote in favor of the bill.
At least one said their rationale was mostly to hit back against progressive Democrats, six of whom voted against it.
"Very sad that the RINOs in the House and Senate gave Biden and Democrats a victory on the 'Non-Infrastructure' Bill," Trump said in a statement. "Where only 11% of the money being wasted goes to real infrastructure."
"How all of those Republican Senators that voted thinking that helping the Democrats is such a wonderful thing to do, so politically correct. They just don't get it!," he continued.
So yeah, that was ten days ago. FOX News has been attacking the bill since it passed the House and made it very clear the money is being "wasted" on "Democrat special interests" and that the 13 Republicans who voted for the bill must be destroyed.
In the days and months ahead, expect every awful, racist, demonstrably false, ridiculous and mind-numbingly terrible charge to be flung at this bill. Just like Obamacare. Just like everything else the Democrats do to save the country.
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